Eleventh month, eleventh day, eleventh hour Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and its violent climax
November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already be...
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New York
Random House Trade Paperbacks
2005, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
- The desperate hours
- The boy who blew up the world
- "A lovely war"
- 'Goya at his most Macabre"
- Upon a midnight clear
- "The God who gave the cannon gave the cross"
- The three musketeers
- A scar from Belgium to Switzerland
- Every inch a solider
- "They shall not pass"
- "What did you do in the great war, Dad?"
- "Tomorrow I shall take my men over the top"
- "Hindenburg! The name itself is massive"
- "Keeping the world safe for democracy"
- "Acts prejudicial to military discipline"
- Doughboys
- "Sweet and noble to die for one's country"
- "Over there"
- "If this is our country, then this is our war"
- Ludendorff's grand gamble
- "A German bullet is cleaner that a whore"
- Baptism in Cantigny
- "Do you want to live forever?"
- "I don't expect to see any of you again"
- "Do you wish to take part in this battle?"
- A civilized end to pointless slaughter
- A plague in the trenches
- "Victims who will die in vain"
- "We knew the end could not be far off"
- "Pass the word. Cease fire at eleven!"
- "Little short of murder"
- The fate of Private Gunther
- "This fateful morning came an end to all wars"
- Greater losses than on D-Day
- "Only the dead have seen the end of war."